About Writer Barry Shultz is the author of Atlascopy News, and President of Atlascopy, Inc. Atlascopy specialized in affordable alternatives to the high cost of printer supplies. http://atlascopy.com
Take Your Printer On Vacation Under normal circumstances an inkjet printer will work fine if it has not been used for up to a week, however, any time beyond that MAY cause problems. I emphasize the word MAY because I have been told by some people that they stored a printer in the closet for over a year and it printed perfectly the first time out. At the opposite end I have had people say that if they don't use the printer at...... Similar Editorial : The Right Printer by Jason Cox. | Source : Laser Printer Drum
How To Kill Your Printer After you get through with your printer, with my expert guidance, yourpartner will probably agree that it's time for an upgrade. Just a few of mytips will be all that you need. In some cases only one of these slick tipswill do the trick. You might get lucky. Let's get started.If your printer is near a wall you're in luck. Sit on your chair directly in frontof your printer and put both hands firmly...... Similar Editorial : Kill The Messenger by Stephen Bucaro. | Source : Laser Printer Drum
Can I Use My Old Ink In My New Printer? Whoh!That's not an answer. Well consider this. How many printer models do you think there are out there right now? 1000? 2000? Who knows. But one thing I do know is nobody, including me, is going to spend the time testing the wrong inks in the wrong cartridges all day long to see if it works."OK wise guy", you say, "can I at least get a reasonable explanation of why I can't use my old ink in my...... Similar Editorial : The Right Printer by Jason Cox. | Source : Laser Printer Drum
Emerging Printer Interfaces The technology that I will focus on here is IrDA and Bluetooth interfaces.Gone will be the wires which extends a lot of possibilities for placing yourprinter in your home or office.IrDA is an acronym for Infrared Data Association. IR devices work by using infrared technology, and hence don't require any cables to connect them to the printer. Actually this is old technology revisited. It was used...... Similar Editorial : The Right Printer by Jason Cox. | Source : Laser Printer Drum
Recycling Inkjet Cartridges Over 375,000,000 Empty Inkjet Cartridges Dumped Each Year.Statistics reveal that only 5% of all empty inkjet cartridges are currently being recycled. E-mail has increased the amount of paper used in offices by almost 40%. Plastics used in inkjet cartridges can take over 10 centuries (1000 years!) to decompose90ml of oil is used to produce each inkjet cartridge.In the last six months...... Similar Editorial : Recycling Used Motor Oil by Bob Jent. | Source : Laser Printer A3
Refilling Laser Cartridges All laser cartridges consist of a drum, toner, corona wires and cleaning blades among other parts that include gears and other moving objects. The only similarity that they have to inkjet cartridges is the fact that you can refill them. You will not get as many refills from a laser cartridge because there are other parts that will eventually wear out that most people will not be able to replace...... Similar Editorial : Hp Ink Cartridges by Brayan Russell. | Source : Laser Printer A3
Cartridge Not Recognized HP and Lexmark have the print heads right on the cartridge and if you'll notice there is some circuitry on the side which also has electrical contacts that connect the print head to the printer. There are many contact points that must be made between the cartridge and the printer. If the connection isn't perfect you will get the error message.There are a couple of things you can do to rectify this...... Similar Editorial : Printer Cartridge by Corbin Newlyn. | Source : Laser Printer A3
Overfilling HP Color Ink Cartridges When you overfill a cartridge there is a great risk of one color overflowing into the chamber of the color next to it resulting in cross chamber contamination. It can definitely cause a quick death to that cartridge if it is excessive. The best thing you can do is try to siphon all the ink out of the cartridge with your injector and inject a cleaning solvent. Siphon out the solvent, rinse and...... Similar Editorial : The Language of Color by Beth Brodovsky. | Source : Laser Printer A3
Cleaning Epson Print Heads The Windex Solution For Unclogging Epson Print HeadsTools needed:1 - 10cc Injector1 - 4" - 5" of fish tank air line tubing (Wal*Mart fish department)Windex (No Drip works best)We are going to flush the print head out with the Windex cleaner.Some people from outside the US may not know about Windex. It is a popular window cleaner sold here in the US.Cut four or five inches of fish tank air line...... Similar Editorial : Epson Printers by Alden Jerry. | Source : Multifunction Fax Printers
Avoiding Print Head Burnout After each time a nozzle fires, a new supply of printer ink is automatically drawn into its chamber, to be ready for the next time. When the printer is told by the computer to print a page, the copper circuits on the end of the ink cartridge send a message to the nozzle's resistor, which then heats the nozzle's ink supply just enough to cause it to expand and to force a drop of ink through the...... Similar Editorial : Cure Your Burnout by Megan Corwin. | Source : Multifunction Fax Printers
Ink Level Monitors Exposed Most printers count ink drops. Every line of print is produced by tinydroplets of ink and your very smart printer keeps track of every one of them. It's pretty impressive because it's nothing for todays inkjet printersto lay down 12,000,000 drops per second.Canon also uses an optical method. The ink sensor monitors the ink levels through optical detection and dot counting and alerts users when the...... Similar Editorial : Constipation Cures Exposed by Dr. Edward F. Group III. | Source : Buy Hard Drive
Can You Refill A Rock? After removing a spent cartridge from your printer don't just throw it in a drawer and expect to be able to refill it in a month or even a year, judging by some of the email I get.The main reason why the sponges dry out is because of a special drying agent that is added to inks. This drying agent is used to prevent smearing when you print out a page. When the ink is inside the cartridge,...... Similar Editorial : Rock Pop Music by Mary Rose. | Source : And Computer Monitors
Gravity Method For Refilling It's not just for HP color cartridges. People have been reporting success refilling Lexmark, Compaq, Epson and Dell cartridges this way. Just about any cartridge that is sponge filled will respond well to gravity refilling. With gravity refilling you simply remove the plunger from the injector and let gravity suck the ink into the cartridge. Granted this is time consuming but the success rate is...... Similar Editorial : Choosing your Divorce Method by Kyle Chambers. | Source : Refurbished Computer Monitors
When Is Black Not Black? The biggest difference is not in the shade of black but the chemistry of the ink itself. I won't bore you with PH levels, polymers, stabilizers, yada, yada, yada. With the fantastic resolution of inkjet printers these days the nozzle holes in the print heads are getting smaller and smaller. If the ink can't get through the tiny nozzle hole the result is, yep, you guessed it... a clogged print head...... Similar Editorial : Black Cohosh by funkitty. | Source : Refurbished Computer Monitors
Troubleshooting Printer Problems If nothing has occurred since the last time you used your printer chances are the problem is straightforward. As obvious as it sounds check to make sure the printer is turned on. Somebody may have turned it off while you were away from your desk or computer. Make sure there is power to the printer. All printers have some kind of light or LED to let you know that it is powered up.If it is turned on...... Similar Editorial : Tips for Troubleshooting by Christine Harrell. | Source : Brother Printer Driver
